reawaken
Britishverb
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to emerge or rouse from sleep
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to become or make aware of (something) again
Example Sentences
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Oscar, meanwhile, his idealism reawakened, sees an opportunity for an underprivileged kid with raw talent to escape her meager existence.
From Los Angeles Times
For many years, scientists assumed that each cyst housed a single, uniform type of parasite that remained inactive until it reawakened.
From Science Daily
But her death undid him, and he found his love for Emma reawakened by remorse.
Ms. Shannon tells her story, of evil dragons reawakening, from three different points of view.
"Let us cast off the armour of our ethnic and political divisions, open our religious confessions to mutual encounter and reawaken in our hearts the dream of a united Lebanon," he said.
From BBC
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